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“Gaming and urban redesign are not the same thing, but they’re related; they incentivize one another.” www.popculturalprecursors.com/p/pokemon-go...

How Pokémon Go exposed America's bad level designOn the game's 10th anniversary, I explain why the play experience sucks in suburbs and rural areaswww.popculturalprecursors.com

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Pokémon Go didn't just embed cartoon creatures in the world around us. It revealed America's bad level design. On the 10th anniversary of the insanely popular AR game's release, I explore what playing it has taught us about our built environment. www.popculturalprecursors.com/p/pokemon-go...

Pokémon Go exposed America's bad level designOn the game's 10th anniversary, I explain why the play experience sucks in suburbs and rural areaswww.popculturalprecursors.com

Schools are throwing away millions of old educational filmstrips. Thankfully, one heroic archivist rescued this masterpiece from oblivion. (Yes, that's gonorrhea depicted as a dragon.) Read about @uncommonephemera.org's work & see more filmstrips: www.popculturalprecursors.com/p/can-this-f...

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I watched the 8 or 10 minutes of gameplay footage they released, and the lack of verticality made it look like a repetitive plod compared to the insomniac 🕷️🕸️ games

"What's in the box?" "Pain. And apple slices. And one of 12 exclusive Snoopy figurines, collect them all! Only available at participating restaurants."

I could really go for a Wendy's Frosty right now, but who has the time to sit through a whole Voight-Kampff test

Good question! I defer to @uncommonephemera.org on that. I used to work at the film and photography archive at UT Austin, and I believe there are archivists doing amazing things to rescue deteriorating Eastmancolor...maybe in Rochester? This was a while ago

“Zoinks, I’ve got zits!” Velma teaches Shaggy about skincare in the 1980 educational filmstrip “The Scooby-Doo Gang in ’Skin Deep’ Part 1: What is Acne?”]. See more wacky filmstrips and read about the archivist trying to save this forgotten medium: www.popculturalprecursors.com/p/can-this-f...

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I love these strips so much. The preservation by @uncommonephemera.org ties in with the art of Hugo Cantin, who creates lightbox art of saved old 8mm strips. Long live analog.

To be clear, ALL ADULTS IN MY LIFE REFUSED TO MAKE IT FOR ME. I stressed how important it was to my future enjoyment of literature to sample the Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang fudge, but they all had other priorities. I somehow soldiered on...

It's very gadget-y when you think about it! Q Branch could've designed that car...

Just remembered that there was a recipe for it in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. When I was seven or eight, I asked several adults to please make it for me—not just my ow n parents. But then the book had to go back to the library... www.a-pinch-of.com/post/monsieu...

Monsieur Bon Bon's Secret FoojA delicious chocolate fudge recipe credited to Ian Fleming, author of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car.www.a-pinch-of.com

This was a fascinating piece about why so many sculptures these days are terrible and creepy slate.com/podcasts/dec...

Have Statues Fallen Off Their Pedestal?Trump wants 250 new statues of American heroes. Here’s why he’s not going to get them.slate.com

The audio is gone forever. But these mind-bending illustrations survive from the educational filmstrip “Drug Abuse: Glue-Sniffing and Pills” (1968). It's just one example of over 1,300 filmstrips preserved by @uncommonephemera.org. Read more here: www.popculturalprecursors.com/p/can-this-f...

Thanks for this great article, Chris! Raising awareness about this forgotten format is the most important thing anyone can do right now. I appreciate your effort to help get these things saved.

my goodness this is fantastic

Educational filmstrips were weirder than you remember: *Gonorrhea dragons *Scooby-Doo explaining acne *Christian mime ministries *Superheroes teaching etiquette I profiled @uncommonephemera.org who's preserved 1,300+ examples of this vanishing medium www.popculturalprecursors.com/p/can-this-f...

My old pal (and genius magazine editor) @chrisbaker1337.bsky.social has a fun sci-fi story in Nature this week.... Adam

It’s not a problem. Honest. I have it all under control. I live in the moment now. I genuinely have the right time. I never go back. I’m not even slightly tempted. It’s not a problem. Honest. I have it all under control. #scifi by @chrisbaker1337.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...